The disproportionate response ensured that abortion was a key issue in the following year's election.
The court has consistently held that imprisonment is a disproportionate response to defamation.
The shelling drew angry criticism from Iraqi leaders, who condemned it as a disproportionate response.
Greenpeace said the Spanish detention of the ship was "an unnecessary and disproportionate response".
"Look at all the people you have killed in your disproportionate response".
In other words, any strike against will lead to a disproportionate response, thereby creating a deterrent.
Eden was scandalised and, riding a wave of popular indignation, prepared a grotesquely disproportionate response: full scale invasion.
To the Editor: It is clear that Israeli airstrikes are a vastly disproportionate response to Hamas's rockets launched into Israel.
Perhaps the F.C.C.'s disproportionate response to that incident will be recognized for what it was: a regulatory malfunction.
No doubt The Economist will now join the usual chorus decrying Israel's disproportionate response to the missile barrage.
Nevertheless, presenters too often stick to the "justified but disproportionate response" paradigm, espoused by the UK government.
